http://www.w3.org/Bugs/Public/show_bug.cgi?id=13396
Henri Sivonen <hsivonen@iki.fi> changed:
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--- Comment #1 from Henri Sivonen <hsivonen@iki.fi> 2011-07-28 08:03:42 UTC ---
(In reply to comment #0)
> 8.2.2.2 Character encodings
> http://www.w3.org/TR/html5/parsing.html#character-encodings-0
>
> Supported by the i18n WG.
>
> "When a user agent is to use the UTF-16 encoding but no BOM has been found,
> user agents must default to UTF-16LE."
>
> If the HTTP header declares the file to be UTF-16BE, which I believe it can,
> and in which case a BOM should *not* be used, then I think that this would not
> be true.
Then the user agent isn't to use the UTF-16 encoding but the UTF-16BE encoding.
The quoted sentence shouldn't say "UTF-16LE". It should say "little-endian
UTF-16", unless the spec intends the reported encoding for the document to
change and I'm pretty sure that's not the intention.
> If the HTTP header declares the file to be UTF-16, then there must be
> a BOM, so I assume that this is a recovery mechanism if someone does declare
> UTF-16 in HTTP but omits the BOM.
Yes.
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